BBQ Chili Sauce · Brembate, in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy
Ornitodrinko
Smoked Ananas BBQ
Gold
A first-year kitchen project that took Gold in one of the hardest categories the awards run, first time out.
BBQ Chili Sauce · Brembate, in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy
Smoked Ananas BBQ
A first-year kitchen project that took Gold in one of the hardest categories the awards run, first time out.
Smoked Ananas BBQ is smoked pineapple and fermented chili: sweet and smoky up front, with the acidity long fermentation gives it. A tropical-meets-grill take that pushes BBQ well beyond the ketchup-and-sugar version.
Roberto Colnaghi
Ornitodrinko is Roberto Colnaghi's own kitchen project in Brembate, built around fermentation rather than heat-chasing. Chilies grown from seed in Lombardy soil, fermented over weeks, bottled by hand in small batches.
It is early days: a growing range of sauces still in development, no shop or website yet, and Instagram as the only public channel. Which makes a Gold, first time out, in the BBQ Chili Sauce category all the more striking.
We grow, ferment and bottle everything ourselves, starting from the seed, so seeing this process recognized at a European level is incredible. Ornitodrinko has always been about patience, experimentation and real craft across a growing range of sauces, and this result means a lot to us.